San Quentin (1937 film)

San Quentin is a 1937 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Pat OBrien, Humphrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan. It was shot on location at San Quentin State Prison.

Red Kennedy arrives in San Quentin a few days later with another new inmate, Sailor Boy Hansen Joe Sawyer. After a fight with Sailor in the courtyard on his first day, he meets Jameson, the new Captain of the Yard, who punishes him. Mae begins a romantic relationship with Jameson, and soon finds out what he couldnt tell her before he is the leading officer of the prison, in charge of the prisoners.Having been selected with Red to work outside the prison in a road gang constructing a new road, Sailor makes a plan to break out. At first Red refuses to join him, but later he changes his mind when it is revealed that Jameson is dating Reds sister. ........

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